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sinanjuI've been working on edits to "Bound by Convention" the last couple of days, and it's been a chore. Not the edits themselves--that's gone smoothly. But for some reason the editor and I have had the worst time with bizarre issues when we email one another the text with the "track changes" feature turned on. Lots of text mysteriously transformed into all caps and lined out, comments missing, even several paragraphs vanished into the ether between when he send me a file and I opened it.
We're getting it hammered out nonetheless, but it's been troublesome--and in a way I never had to deal with on the first story. I don't know if it's because OpenOffice and Word don't work and play well together, or what. But as I say, we didn't have this problem with "Flying High" and I worked on that in Open Office too. It's weird.
In other news, I've been submitting stories to markets with faster turn-around times lately. Which means that when they sell, they'll sell pretty fast. It also means that while they're being bounced, I'm getting rejections at a faster clip too. Ah well. It helps build a thicker skin, I suppose.
Just got in from an evening of role-playing. It was fun, but now I'm tired.
Stories in Circulation: 13
Rejections: 18
Stories Accepted: TWO!
We're getting it hammered out nonetheless, but it's been troublesome--and in a way I never had to deal with on the first story. I don't know if it's because OpenOffice and Word don't work and play well together, or what. But as I say, we didn't have this problem with "Flying High" and I worked on that in Open Office too. It's weird.
In other news, I've been submitting stories to markets with faster turn-around times lately. Which means that when they sell, they'll sell pretty fast. It also means that while they're being bounced, I'm getting rejections at a faster clip too. Ah well. It helps build a thicker skin, I suppose.
Just got in from an evening of role-playing. It was fun, but now I'm tired.
Stories in Circulation: 13
Rejections: 18
Stories Accepted: TWO!
